Free Library Event: Malcolm Gladwell, "The American Way of Killing"

**Event Title:** Malcolm Gladwell, *The American Way of Killing: The Invention of an Epidemic* **Date & Time:** Wed., Oct., 14, 2026; 7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. EDT **Cost:** $5.00 - you can purchase tickets here: [https://10991a.blackbaudhosting.com/10991a/tickets?tab=2&txobjid=6518b2d8-fb49-41f0-ba2e-20ebd87f4d1b](https://10991a.blackbaudhosting.com/10991a/tickets?tab=2&txobjid=6518b2d8-fb49-41f0-ba2e-20ebd87f4d1b) **Books will be available for purchase at the library on event night.** This program is free and open to the public and will meet in the auditorium of Parkway Central Library. Please use Wood Street entrance/exit. **About the Book:** Malcolm Gladwell returns with his most urgent book yet: a provocative investigation of America's epidemic of gun violence. The United States has far more homicides than any of its peers around the world. Why? In this groundbreaking book, Malcolm Gladwell explores the American "peculiarity"--how the world's wealthiest country came to suffer from a problem typically only seen in the world's poorest countries. Drawing on original interviews, archival and social science research, and his trademark insight, Gladwell approaches the American paradox through a series of stories. What can we learn from the miracle of a young gunshot victim in Washington, D.C.? How have the legal troubles of a seventeenth-century English knight influenced American attempts at gun control?